This is why Larson is so well liked--humility. Never assumes he can't learn or improve. He's a great driver.

They definitely don’t suck it’s just different racing. I hope NASCAR fans can tune in to watch Supercars in Townsville this weekend and see the racing Shane and the guys normally do on a street circuit. They fly off curbs on 2 wheels with one side of the car a couple of feet in the air and scrape mirrors on the wall. Seriously skilled drivers.

Respect to Larson for the respectful comments about SVG.

Such a humble man. I bet Kyle will be on a street course practicing everything he learned watching.

We Aussies don't think you guys suck his back in OZ ready to race this weekend and has never mentioned anything other than he enjoyed the experience he is a very humble guy with a lot of talent 🤘

SVG is a great ambassador for his sport. This American is watching V8 Supercars this weekend!

The HEADLINE here: ‘I’ve never raced with a spotter before.’ Makes what he accomplished even more impressive. Respect.

So basically what Shayne is saying is that he wasnt even going hard for most of the race?

I think Larson is the only driver right now in NASCAR that could be ultra successful in other series. He's a solid wheelman. Think of JPM, Foyt, Mario, Gurney could win in NASCAR, IndyCar, SportsCar, F1. I think Kyle could be in that group of drivers who can win in anything.

I am impressed by the attitude and demenour of Kyle Larsen.

What's makes it a !little more impressive is that he was sitting on the wrong side of the car and shifting with his right hand, normally his driving hand on his side of the world.

Larson and SVG are cut from the same cloth... fast in anything with wheels. Would be great to see Larson get a Bathurst drive.

When Shane said he never raced with a spotter before, I about fell out of my chair. That shows you how good those guys are, no wonder he came over and whooped us!

As a die-hard NASCAR fan, I loved SVG's win. Aussie Supercars are no joke.

They don’t suck and I know this is a first for some nascar drivers on a street track, but damn you could see the difference in the lines SVG was taking and he came from 18th at one stage to clean up. These are meant to be professional race car drivers and he made them look like novices. And did it cleanly on the wrong side of the car also. Congrats SVG !!

You guys don’t suck! You just need to understand that Gizzy is just a unique talent… a once in a generation person born to drive…. Anything!

I agree with Dale Jr. This was the most level playing field it could’ve been for him to come in and do this. It was a new track to everyone and like Shane said this was his bread and butter. Jr said if it were Watkins Glen or Sonoma where these guys run frequently he thinks the outcome would’ve been different and I’d have to say I agree with that statement

Yep oval is SUPER competitive, very tough racing, ask Marcos Ambrose.

Definitely going to check out the super car series

SvG drove an amazing race. I think it showed whose of us who are NASCAR fans that there's a lot left in the Next Gen car in terms of what it can do on a road course.

Good interviews of 2 class act racers right there! Not to mention talented.... I think that Shane's utilization of the clutch gave him an upper hand in the braking zones. I'm sure you're going to see more old school Ricky Rudd style road course racing from now on in Nascar.... he smoked em....

Nice words from both drivers. Good stuff.

As an Australian I'm so impressed at what great sports the NASCAR drivers are in recognising Gizzy's achievement here. Great people make for a great sport.

The super car guys have been good for a long time on street circuits!

This is a great edited video that answers all the questions, thank you 👍

I would love to see Scott McLaughlin drive a cup car on a road course. Look at what he's accomplished in IndyCar since he's been there. Good to see international drivers in their prime driving good equipment in Nascar. I would also like to see SVG race Kyle Larson in a sprint car since both of them are good at that also.

Basically no,NASCAR drivers don’t suck. As SVG has stated he races on these kind of street circuits a lot during the V8 Supercars season so obviously he has a hell of a lot more experience than the NASCAR boys. NASCAR don’t race in the wet so the conditions were all new to the way the cars handled. The right angle turns must be hard to negotiate as well (given that they pretty much all looked the same which could get confusing) especially when your used to the long sweeping corners of a NASCAR oval,again SVG is more used to these type of corners so he would know his breaking zones and the speeds he can take them at. As SVG said himself after the race,it would be a completely different story if he raced on an oval! So no NASCAR drivers don’t suck in my opinion,it was a great result for SVG and hats off and well done to the NASCAR drivers for racing and putting on a show in totally unfamiliar settings and conditions. Hopefully this result will boost an interest in V8 Supercars from the NASCAR fans as well.

The NASCAR drivers were getting better and better - and they drove awesome considering it was their first street race. The course was tight and unforgiving, and they handled it like real professionals. Clean driving and passing....it could easily have been carnage out there. SVG specialises in this type of racing - and like he said - it would have been completely different on an oval. But, as a Kiwi, it was great to see a fellow countryman do well against names that we idolise down here. It definitely would be a different story on a big wide banked oval.

Lol. I was trying to remember who's good and who's not.

I bet Bubba Smollet would never have been that humble.

I reckon top Nascar guys should run a team at Bathurst. Reckon the Yanks would love it.

SVG "I left lots on the table in qualifying" after qualifying 3rd LOL

"Normally, I'd have just barrelled off and joined the crash." 😂😂😂😂😂

You all got beat by a Kiwi? Don't tell any of your Aussie buddies (McFadden,Madsen,etc.)

You don’t suck, you just don’t drive in these conditions regularly. GIS is he rain master even in Supercars, where they regularly run in those conditions.

I am hoping some nascar drivers/teams could come out to Australia and rice with the V8 supercars

No you guys definatetly don't suck. He is just that gifted. He drove that Nascar like he drives his V8SC. You don't see the rest of the Nascar field drive like that. Would like to see him on a Oval. He never raced with a spotter before. And was on the Left side of the car.

SVG - an Aussie legend - oops - Kiwi legend - if you can find it on KZfaq checkout he and his Dad racing on the track on the family farm-

hopefully you can watch the supercars series this weekend , see shane go at it again , but against "better drivers" 🤷‍♂️🇳🇿😂

In Supercars all the drivers use the clutch and heel and toe their downshifts. The Nascar guys don't use a clutch. So SVG is in a left hand drive and using his clutch and brake bias front and rear adjustments throughout the race. THis guy can drive the wheels off anything !

One of the problems with NBC's coverage. Failed to show the backfield. I would have loved watching The Gis running the table, as he raised the bar for NASCAR.

Robbie Gordon, Juan Montoya, Marcos Ambrose were road course drivers who won in nascar. Nobody was saying " we suck " back then when they got beat.

It is so ridiculous how nascar had no idea they are talentless drivers and the biggest joke of the racing world until someone on an emergency call up jumped into the car and showed you the cars can actually be driven with a real driver. 😂😂😂😂

Loved Chase and Kyle's comments, i don't think Shane thinks they suck, but how both can translate SVG's performance into a wake up call to improve is amazing. Always strive for excellence.

SVG was definitely in his element

New competition,new driver's to admire,and follow,Giz will always be #1 but for sure,these guy's in the studio after the race,are a breath of fresh air, compared to those in the Super cars,even the reporters are better,with the question's put to the driver's, Never followed NASCAR,just the stuff in the SH Bathurst Always a weekend of maxing out on the couch, Now I have a huge appreciation for NASCAR, it's driver's,and it's interviewing,Kiwi fan here,

I love Kyle Larson number 5 7/6/23

Dude was so smooth , He said it put him on s SS and he would get schooled

Google SVG rally and have a look at how he wheels a 4wd WRC rally car. This guy has talent in spades.

What would be great is a couple of nascar drivers trying supercars.

to say that they suck would be harsh, but the fact that the commentators were bamboozled by the heel and toe technique shows that they are a fair bit behind on street and road tracks. Can you imagine if this had been a car he was dialed in, week in week out?.... ovals are a different thing altogether, completely alien to anyone not racing in the US, so it would not be fair to make a comparison on that basis...that would like asking Kyle Bush to compete in Rally Sweden, which is on snow.

Nascar drivers maybe muscles are used to high G left turn and maybe got tired turning right. edit and also lots more gear change they got sore arms

What great job. Just driving a left hand drive car in LA is bad enough, but racing one.... Hang- on, it's probably very similar , LoL. But I said it on another video, those guys were running some weird lines. You could tell they'd rather just make left turns.

Picture this, How can we win the Chicago street race? SIMPLE, Let's hire the best in a world-champion road racer. Thats how.

Nascar should have red flagged the race when Harvick caused that massive pile up and then NASCAR rigged the race by cutting it short. Face it, Cup cars are meant for oval speed ways, not street races.

Come to Australia and try our racing..

cmon SVG next street circuit, you and the team ?

Check out any of GVB driving in the Bathurst 1000 race and you’ll see how supercar drivers can really drive

Nascar drivers dont suck, they just lack experience in street circuit racing! If you want a good laugh look up Channel 7s attempt at Bathurst in 1977 in a Bob Morris prepared A9X Torana where the hot shot American drivers were 10 seconds behind in practice and said the car was no good! Bob did 6 laps in the car and got it within .6 of a second of the lap record , got out and said the car is fine!😅

I would think any Oz V8 Supercar driver would look down on any Nascar driver. It is a different discipline that is all. Most Americans would not know we have a Tri Oval here in Straya. Although it hasn't been used for a few years, about 20 miles Nth of Melbourne is the Calder Park Thunderdome, which had full on Nascar and Auscar racing for years.

SVG has been racing big heavy cars on street circuits for years. He is an amazing driver but it would be different on an oval!

Street races are even better in cities where the buildings have balconies. Gold Coast Australia is prime example. Indy was great there. Weather plays a part aswell. Miami would be my choice.

It was one race on a street course that no one was familiar with.

I have done street racing the first one is really hard its not like any racecourse.

Glad to see I had the same problem that Ginzzy had from the other side of the car. I went to Australia 7 years ago (where did the time go?), and the other side of the rental car looked like a big conference table, so it took a while to figure out where the edge was.

We need Kimi back to try again. And Shane needs to try our other street circuit too , and Pocono

Shane’s win is proof that Nascar is just the American version of V8 Supercars.😂

For years Nascar hyped the "road course ringers". All of these semi decent drivers from their own discipline was gonna come in and whoop up on them Nascar boys. And they never did. And Nascar got big headed. "Cup drivers are the greatest drivers in the WORLD!!!!". Then a legit road course/street course racer comes in on a brand new street course and beats them and it's an overblown shock to everybody. "Do we suck?". Well, when it comes to racing with a multi time champion on his own playground, yeah you do. Put him on Bristol or Dover and he's gonna suck. I do not understand why van Gisbergen's win is a shock.

Interesting to see him at Bristol or other short tracks

The fact the Nascar drivers don't heel-toe shift just shows how much more technique he has in this type of driving. Add this race to the schedule, and a few drivers will improve each race. The street course, and then adding the rain... I think most of the Nascar drivers adapted pretty damn good. It was the first Nascar race I've sat and watched almost all of in a long time.

I can see this turned into a Hollywood movie 🍿

"Beat us at our own game" it's Not your game, it's street racing not an oval, so it ain't your game mate. Beaten by a regular street/road racer who just happens to be the best in the business at that

wow larson matured well!

Thanks for this Awesome video

i know he will

So, in addition to everything else, Shane migrated from right-hand drive to left-hand drive. He learnt most of what he needed to learn as he was doing laps at the start of the race. He truly is a gifted driver, we hope that our American friends don’t try and steal him from us. Aussies. Hehehe

just remember shane was driving and shifting with opposit hand and i guess left foot accellerate

...all were humble,...that is wonderful to see in this woke day & age.

And he left some on the table

But he (Shane) never actually answered the question if he though the Nascar drivers 'sucked' at the street course.....

If thats what they think a out him, imagine what they would think about frosty or lowndes

It’s even more incredible knowing that Shane normally drives on the Right side of the car & shifts with his Left hand!

Now I want to see him run Martinsville or Bristol. I'll bet he whoops them there too!

Imagine making all the V8 Supercar drivers run an oval race during their season and sending a few elite NASCAR drivers over there to race us. We’d get whipped just the same.

Well, SVG knows how to Shake AND Bake!! Look out Ricky Bobby!!😜

id say the level of competition has fallen far since the days of gordon, stewart, and johnson.

Yes , y’all do !!

Let's see SVG at Talladega or Daytona.

NASCAR drivers do suck. Roval turn 1 when 7 cars plowed into the wall showed us that. Indy RC last yr reaffirmed it. COTA this year solidified they are absolutely talentless

I guess it's a shock to Americans to find out that there are talented people in other parts of the world.

Didn't he also have fresher tires on that last run? Not taking away from his obvious talent.

Good driver with the freshest tires🏁

This race was soooooo much fun to watch. Unlike the boring driving in circles BS that Nascar usually does.

for the americans watching this video, go look up bathurst 1000 Its 600 miles, 6 hours, huge technical sections, every type of corner imaginable all while having a literal mountain on the race track. Its a whole sperate beast compared to what nascar deals with and people like Shane Van Gisbergen are a dime a dozen down there. Nascar is simply unequipped to deal with guys like them.

2 be honest all the crashes exposed the rookie 101 errors , all were misjudgement of speed & line in2 corners . 😂

No he just happened to win the race next year if they have the race and he's in it I wouldn't bet that he would win it

The simple answer is yes

It's ashamed that our regular driver are falling all over this guy it was just one race

This is what happens when you inject talent into a field of rich kids who bought their way to the series. NASCAR has about 6 or 7 good drivers, the rest just aren't. Larson obviously knows this, Kyle Busch as well, they've essentially said the same thing. NASCAR has done a lot to save their lower end talent by making lower horsepower cars with tons of downforce and grip so they're easy to drive. Road racing, and probably more so street circuits, are drivers courses and are challenging enough that talent makes up more than it normally would in a cup car.

We constantly hear NASCAR drivers can't, drive on anything but ovals. Yet the same driver wins every week in Formula 1. Maybe F! drivers can't drive on road courses, you think.